The highly demanding Over-The-Top (OTT) multimedia applications pose increased
challenges to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for assuring a reasonable Quality of …

Over the last few years, the evolution of network and user handsets' technologies, have
challenged the telecom industry and the Internet ecosystem. Especially, the unprecedented …

Network function virtualization (NFV) has been considered as a promising technology for
future Internet to increase the network flexibility, accelerate the service innovation, and …

Transmission of video traffic over the Internet has grown exponentially in the past few years
with no sign of waning. This increasing demand for video services has changed user …

Forecasts predict that Internet traffic will continue to grow in the near future. A huge share of
this traffic is caused by multimedia streaming. The quality of experience (QoE) of such …

The article presents a novel affective content-aware adaptation scheme (ACAA) to optimize
Quality of Experience (QoE) for dynamic adaptive video streaming over HTTP (DASH). Most …

We study the dynamic scheduling of multiple deadline constrained tasks in a serving system
with N servers and a public queue with M positions. Under stochastic task arrivals and …

This paper proposes online scheduling policies to optimize quality of experience (QoE) for
video-on-demand applications in wireless networks. We consider wireless systems, where …

The Quality of Experience (QoE) of streaming service is often degraded by frequent
playback interruptions. To mitigate the interruptions, the media player prefetches streaming …

Video streaming is anticipated to dominate wireless traffic in the near future. We study
wireless systems where an access point delivers video streams to multiple clients over …